LOS ANGELES – Jennifer Lopez has been awarded nearly $545,000 in a lawsuit against her first husband, Ojani Noa, over his plans to publish a tell-all book claiming she had several affairs.
A court-ordered arbitrator made the decision in April in Lopez’s breach-of-contract lawsuit against Noa, court papers filed Monday indicated. The figure includes only $200,000 in damages, with the rest going for arbitration costs and attorneys’ fees.
Lopez’s lawsuit claimed that Noa had violated a previous lawsuit settlement preventing him from revealing private information about their relationship.
Noa’s unpublished, ghostwritten book alleges that during that time Lopez had multiple affairs, including one with her third and current husband, Marc Anthony, court documents indicated.
Her lawsuit claimed Noa offered not to publish the book in return for $5 million.
Jack White and wife have second child
NEW YORK – Jack White and his wife, Karen Elson, are the parents of a baby boy.
The couple’s second child, named Henry Lee White, was born Tuesday, a publicist for the White Stripes frontman said Wednesday.
White and Elson have a 15-month-old daughter, Scarlett Teresa White.
White, 32, married Elson, a 28-year-old model, in 2005. The White Stripes are on a break from their North America tour, which will resume Sept. 13.
Nancy Grace’s lawyers criticize death suit
OCALA, Fla. – Lawyers for CNN and Nancy Grace have asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses the TV host of pushing the mother of a missing toddler to suicide through aggressive questioning.
CNN and Grace say the wrongful death lawsuit brought by Melinda Duckett’s family would “severely chill” journalists’ coverage of missing-persons cases, according to federal court documents filed Friday.
“The law does not permit people to recover money from reporters who ask routine questions while covering ongoing stories of national significance to the public,” lawyer Judith Mercier wrote.
Lawyers for Duckett’s estate did not immediately return a telephone message left Wednesday afternoon by The Associated Press.
Duckett, 21, was on Grace’s show a year ago after her son Trenton went missing from her apartment. Grace grilled the woman, accusing her of hiding something because Duckett did not take a lie-detector test and answered vaguely regarding her whereabouts.
Police later named Duckett the prime suspect in the boy’s disappearance.
Duckett shot and killed herself the day the taped interview was scheduled to broadcast. The lawsuit blames Grace for severe emotional distress that led to the suicide.
Trenton, who would turn 3 on Friday, has not been found.
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